Tuesday, August 18, 2009

This guy (beware of popups) never met a theory he didn't like and never saw two items he couldn't link in a dozen meaningful ways. He sent me a long e-mail asking for a review of his research. As I'm busy with work, and my woo-dar overloaded rather quickly, I figured I'd let someone else waste their...er, review this.

There's the famous quote from Feynman, "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." It's bad enough when real scientists get there, but when schizotypal folks get this stuff in their brains it's like giving a kaleidoscope to an acid-freak in a room full of disco lights. (I think I found next weekend's special activity!)

In the spirit of The Matrix, some of us opted for the red pill and this guy took an everlasting gobstopper dipped in some of Timothy Leary's 'quantum enlightener'.

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This kinda thing is darkly entertaining for awhile... then it starts to make yer head spin. I didn't check them all, but almost every other word in his spiel is a link to Wikipedia. Didn't take me long to find a funny quote:

"Science is generally resistant to the idea that in the human being there could be a soul or light body above and beyond the physical body, or some entity besides the body and its structures, an entity which survives the death of the body, for the fundamental reason that scientists cannot conceive of any memory or personality traits existing without the support of the brain or the body."

Keep in mind that key words above (like "Scientists" and "idea") are linked to Wikipedia, just in case you want to look them up.

I don't think this guy deserves a rebuttal, just nod your head and back away slowly...

Oh man, there's no way I am gonna wade through that insanity combinatorial explosion.It's like he took all of the stupid ideas out of all possible schools of human intellectual endeavour and combined them in the one webpage.

I blame the hippies... and not just because this guy suffers from acid-induced crackpottery. Between the hugs, the drugs, the Newage Sewage, and the misguided attempts to make everyone feel like they are equal, the hippies are responsible!

Now every goon with basic typing skills and $10 a month for a website can turn his Saturday night drug- and drink-fueled BS sessions with his buddies about an episode of bad TV Sci-Fi into a full-on "philosophy" or "science" presentation. No doubt, this is consuming more and more of this guy's life, and pretty soon we'll be paying his disability checks.

As an alternative to Quantum Theory there is a new theory that describes and explains the mysteries of physical reality. While not disrespecting the value of Quantum Mechanics as a tool to explain the role of quanta in our universe. This theory states that there is also a classical explanation for the paradoxes such as EPR and the Wave-Particle Duality. The Theory is called the Theory of Super Relativity and is located at: http://www.superrelativity.org This theory is a philosophical attempt to reconnect the physical universe to realism and deterministic concepts. It explains the mysterious.

And I'm stopping right there. Until Philosophical can be accurately retitled "Scientific" or "Empirical" I have no reason to waste my time on the theory. You can Philosophically materalize any woo from out of the aether, as our friend in question has demonstrated.

There was a phisophical "Theory" in a research magazine I read called the "Vivocentric theory of the universe" where it asserted that life creates the universe (time space) around it. Isn't that cute...BUT IT'S WRONG!Until you can give me something that would show your idea has an actual tether to reality you're writing either poetry or sci-fi/fantasy. Not that there is anything wrong with either of those...but don't confuse it with science.

My trusty Google Chrome browser blocked about 5 pop-ups while I journeyed through that dark yet colorful site. These types don't even deserve responses, because their sense of reason or rationality is all but lost. It's sad, but if he wants to believe all this stuff, it's in his rights as long as it doesn't infringe upon mine.

"For God's mercy will be poured forth only for a certain time, my son,until the majority of my prophecies are fulfilled and this fulfillmentis complete. Then *****several times***** in the course of the dolefultempests the Lord shall say: Therefore I shall crush and destroy andshow no mercy; and many other circumstances shall result from floodsand continual rain of which I have written more fully in my otherprophecies, composed at some length, not in a chronological sequence,in prose, limiting the places and times and ****EXACT DATES**** sothat future generations will see, while experiencing these****inevitable events****, how I have listed others in clearerlanguage, so that despite their obscurities these things shall beunderstood: When the time comes for the removal of ignorance, thematter will be clearer still."

hahaha hoo-boy, following the links of that last guy above me, Dave, was the funniest thing I've read all week.

I was hoping that I'd actually see some attempted proof that somebody had won the Randi Million-dollar challenge, but it was one video of a FAILED attempt plus several webpages ranting about six-legged goats and the end of the world.

Oh, yes. I remember the six legged goat page, but I never knew what they were talking about. As I read it, I imagined Will Farrel yelling "You think you're so hot, well, we got a six legged goat. That's right, losers. You all can suck it!"

But seriously, Dave. If this was not just a random spamming, then there is a reason this is not evidence. You're not predicting the future. You're predicting the past. Anyone can take a few hits of acid and then say something that can one day be twisted around to sound prophetic. The problem is that it is easy to distort things after the fact to make some passages sound as though they referred to the current event.

If you want to win the challenge, you will have to predict something, and make sense of the prediction, without the benefit of hindsight.

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